When reporter Kathleen McLaughlin first went to China, she needed regular doses of blood plasma, but in China at that time, the odds on any medication were only about 50-50 that it was both safe and effective. So she smuggled in her own, but as a reporter for the Guardian, she wondered, what’s the impact of defective Chinese medicines around the world. In Tanzania, where malaria is a widespread problem, those 50-50 odds were leaving a lot of patients ill-treated or dead.